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• Projects More recently the past 5 years have seen projects in: Sales, Marketing, Branding off the web, as well as SEO and SEM functions on the web. In the past 20+ years Mr Schwilgin has aided many corporations – large and small, in both the public and private sectors. In that time Laszlo has developed Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in some areas: (See IT/MIS Past page) Much of the work has been at least partially of a technical consulting nature. Laszlo has facilitated change at all levels of the business model. Often the assignment required integration of a number of tools into one working process. This required in-depth detailed knowledge of each vendor/tool's abilities and shortcomings when standing alone and after integration. Laszlo's advisory role was usually multi-fold as a facilitator, project manager, and educator in the implementation of new business practices. Work situations: were often initiated by top level management (CEO, President, CFO...). Initiation stages working with C-level management. As the project moved through the complete business cycle, it usually got right into the development team level. Work has involved scenarios ranging from slight process adjustments to full process re-engineering. Mr Schwilgin has successfully implemented as many as nine (9) tools integrated at one time (this particular case required major process re-engineering). Clients situations include: Companies with little pre-established process such as CIBC, Consumer Gas, Bank of Montreal, etc; Companies with process models developed to level 2 or 3 in the CMMI maturity model, such as Motorola and IBM; and, Military/Aerospace clients with quality levels to get you to the moon and back, alive! . A partial client list includes: PWGSC; Department of National Defense; Statistics Canada; Canadian Space Agency; Nav Canada; Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism; Nortel; Newbridge; Alcatel; Bombardier (services, Transport & Aerospace); Ericsson; Raytheon Canada Limited; Thomson-CSF Systems Canada; United Technologies; and, Cognos Incorporated. Some details are listed below:   Skills by sector: Work Experiences: Ottawa DnD - MHP             A high profile political sensitive operation. Largest federal government expenditure at DnD at over 3 billion dollars. The plan is to be able to answer any technical or political question about the process as it would be fully documented and process verified.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Process re-engineering,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) DnD - DCLI             A politically sensitive operation to allow all branches of the military to communicate with each other. Issue being initiated by the army and therefore the navy and air force tend to oppose politically the process. No top down mandate so that each step must be obtained through painstaking consensus                                                                                Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) DnD - MMHS             A high visibility project as it includes NATO and the US military. Here the project issue is speed. The solution is very due and the process was not flexible enough to catch up. New process was required.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) LGS Group             This company had developed expertise and process all around Y2K and then the future arrived. There was an immediate need to re-invent themselves in both business and internal methodologies.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Nav Canada             Now a private enterprise with deep government roots, there was the mandate to create an RFP process and the post implementation process that would take the RFP from a 3 team 90 day process down to a one team 1 week process. Achieved to such a level             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) SAIC Corporation             The Canadian chapter of this international company was being given far more autonomy. This required upper management structure as well as modification of the business process. In addition there was a desire to streamline the RFP response process.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Nortel - Local Transport Development - Broadband Networks             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Nortel - Computer Engineer Multimedia Platform Products                       Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Nortel - Software Engineering Assurance Lab                   Striving for CMM/SEI maturity model implementation for a necessary improvement of QA results.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Nortel - Radio Systems Design             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Nortel - OPC Architecture               Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Cognos Incorporated             There was a business process in place that no longer was competitive. The product release for one element of the corporation was failing to deliver on time and on budget. Quality was also an issue with 5 autonomous groups used to create a single product. This all had to be re-made.                           Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Process re-engineering,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Cognicase             Their RFP response process was non-competitive. A product solution was chosen and needed to be implemented.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Statistics Canada Look on the Web: Look.com Activities: HTL provided start-up experience to Look on the Web: Look.com: MANAGEMENT Accounting: banking: legals & contracts: Investor relations: find them, feed them, get them on board SALES & MANAGEMENT In-bound account manager: banners, towers, XML feeds companies Out-bound account manager: Look affiliates, re-branding SALES & MARKETING Sales: of cpc, pkp and other Look resources Traffic: find it, grow it, make it... enhancer: (must be "make money" traffic so source and quality matter) MARKETING Media exposure: news releases, schmooze with media world for coverage. Affiliates: in any sense of the word. find the quality relationships: start them, grow them , maintain them. TECH Hardware administrator: System administrator: In-house software administrator: Software developer: Search engine optimizer guru: Conducted All: negotiations, legal/contracts,deals, and affiliation. Over saw all the work of up to 3 full time staff and 6 contractors. CTO, CFO and CEO responsibilities were included. Designed implement and executed the business, sales and marketing plans. Calgary Burnsand             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) WindRiver Systems             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) EFA Software Systems             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Harris Corporation             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management)    Auto-Trol Technologies             Activities at this site were:                         Process re-engineering,                         Trainer                         Tools integration development tools   Riley's Datashare International             Activities at this site were:                         Process re-engineering,                         Trainer                         Tools integration development tools Canadian Pacific Railway             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Telus             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer                         Tools integration Client/server load testing Toronto Antaries Alliance             The company had made a very real commitment to a quality process. As such they also made the decision to go with a single tool vender to supply Automated Software Quality (ASQ) solution. The net result was a development and planning process completely new to the corporation with the introduction of the process and the 9 supporting tools over a very short time frame.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer                         Tools integration development tools                         Tools integration Client/server load testing Bank of Montreal             All business practices had to be meticulously explored and documented. The business process was then analysed and completely rebuilt from the ground up with 2 main objectives. A whole new branch platform product and the underlying business process to support the new product purchase.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Business practices                         Analyst/Programmer Manulife Financial             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Ministry of Labour              A new system was requested to fulfill a mandate to increase public access to the information systems of the ministry. Needs analysis was completed followed by a system design, development and implementation to meet the ministry objectives. The system resided in the ministries public access area and staff training (including train the trainers) was the final step in a complete systems operation.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Business practices,                         Trainer                         Analyst/Programmer Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism             An exceptional creative solution was found for a ministry problem. They had been unable to resolve a management issue. With the insightful analysis of the problem a product solution was found to meet their business issue. The ministry had 1.5 million MS-Word documents under jurisdiction that were all inter-related. As such changes in one may influence countless number of other documents located anywhere in Ontario. The 1.5 million documents had to be logically linked so that change management can be exercised. This task was achieved thru many meetings to consultive sale and education, and final solution presentation and acceptance             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Business practices,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Spectra Securities Software Inc             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis                         Tools integration development tools ABN Amro Bank Canada              Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Trainer,                         Tools integration (requirements Management) Toronto Orthopaedic Appliance Limited             The business began with absolutely no computer systems and no in-house computer expertise. There was a business need to automate and computerize the accounting and the manufacturing facilities. Both were unique. Over time the systems were designed implemented and enhanced. Staff was trained and help to successful automate the whole office including all the specialty needs.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Business practices,                         Process re-engineering,                         Trainer                         Analyst/Programmer CIBC             On first arriving on location the small trading floor department was losing $6 million a month and had no systems to speak of. 1st generation systems had to be implemented in very short order to identify and stop the financial haemorrhage. Within a year the various systems brought on-line resulted in this trading floor department capturing 10% of the profit the following year end. The systems were designed for the very competitive derivative products capital markets trading systems.             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Business practices,                         Process re-engineering,                         Trainer                         Analyst/Programmer Wood Gundy             Mid and back office systems from CIBC and Wood Gundy had to merge and accept the trading floor systems input. All aspects of system integration where required. Simultaneous functionality between multiple OS and multiple computer languages were just one of the hurtles to cross             Activities at this site were:                         Process analysis,                         Business practices,                         Process re-engineering,                         Trainer                         Analyst/Programmer Consumer Gas             The utility had given itself 11 months to unplug on of their mainframes. They required full business analysis to determine all business functionality on the system. Level of use, required features addressed and absent and document the 11 month transition to PC LAN systems. Needs Analysis, system requirement, user requirements, schedules, budgets all had to match the 11 month constraint.             Activities at this site were:                                     Business practices                                     Process analysis                                     Process re-engineering   International  Multilogic Computing Inc.             North America development team lead. European Business development Manager. Global Marketing Manager.             Activities at this site were:                                     Business practices                                     Process analysis                                     Marketing, legals Olivetti of Italy.             North America development member.             Activities at this site were: Software development on multi-lingual and multi-continent development team Communication software specialist.